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that was built in their grazing area. The Ute and
Colorow had friendly relations with the Rooney family as they kept their word to them and the other tribes on letting them continue to use Iron Spring, and at Mt. Vernon when friend and mainstay resident William Matthews brought his new wife Frances
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band of Utes. He received the nickname "Red" or "Colorado" for his particularly red skin, as compared to the Utes. His name is spelled with a 'w' at the end, which is a reflection of english language speakers who would have heard the
Spanish pronunciation of his name, "Colorao", which is a regional
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Morrison. They stayed near mineral springs, called "Iron Spring". Other Native American tribes—Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Companche—visited the springs, but the visits were always peaceful there. Colorow held tribal councils at "Inspirational Tree" or "Council Tree" at the foot of Dinosaur
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editor George West. Although West faced
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Colorow was a skilled horseman and warrior. He traveled across the trails of
Colorado, having known many chiefs of other tribes, fur trappers, military men, and the Spanish. He visited Colorado towns. He engaged in battles with the Arapaho, one near
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Colorado and New Mexico Spanish where the 'd' in an 'ado' ending word is often softened or dropped, thus, Colorado would be spoken as Colorao, which to a non-Spanish speaker would sound like Colorow.
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Colorow, the mountain being a place where he camped, and Indian Gulch was where Colorow came to trade ponies with the townspeople. Colorow also spent part of each summer with his band in the
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and his band he found camped at a spring where the Golden Mill stands today (1012 Ford Street) in the valley, but was thwarted when Black Kettle made an overnight tactical withdrawal to the top of
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He was a sub-chief by 1868 and was considered for the chief of the
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was a Ute chief of the Ute
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Colorow traveled with the band and more than 1,000 horses and goats to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near present-day Denver. A camp was first established on
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in Jefferson County history, seen en route through Golden dressed in "rich attire." Colorow and the Ute also had friendly and productive relations with
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Colorow was born a Comanche about 1810. Five years later there was a battle in Northern New Mexico which resulted in him being kidnapped by the
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that was so severe that the Utes and plains tribes carefully avoided the valley, making it effectively a
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in the mouth to stop his lies. The conflict led to Utes being put on reservations. Colorow left for the
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